UCLA Lewis Center
@uclalewiscenter.bsky.social
Studying housing affordability and transportation equity in the LA Region
Happy Thanksgiving!! We're grateful for another year of working with the community to produce actionable research.
Check out our Director's Report to see highlights from the last year 🌇🚂🦺
Check out our Director's Report to see highlights from the last year 🌇🚂🦺
Director's Report 2025
Highlights from the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
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November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!! We're grateful for another year of working with the community to produce actionable research.
Check out our Director's Report to see highlights from the last year 🌇🚂🦺
Check out our Director's Report to see highlights from the last year 🌇🚂🦺
We kicked off the 2025-26 #HousingLectureSeries with @elpaavo.bsky.social lpaavo.bsky.social on the history of France's social housing program, and how that approach could inform similar efforts in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Yp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Yp...
Learning from Social Housing Production in France with Paavo Monkkonen
YouTube video by UCLA Lewis Center
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November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We kicked off the 2025-26 #HousingLectureSeries with @elpaavo.bsky.social lpaavo.bsky.social on the history of France's social housing program, and how that approach could inform similar efforts in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Yp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Yp...
The #UCLAHousingVoice incentives series continues with @benschneider.bsky.social for a conversation about the unintended consequences of ratcheting up building standards.
Full ep. below:
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/19/1...
Full ep. below:
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/19/1...
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The #UCLAHousingVoice incentives series continues with @benschneider.bsky.social for a conversation about the unintended consequences of ratcheting up building standards.
Full ep. below:
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/19/1...
Full ep. below:
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/19/1...
🚨 Reminder!! 🚨 Housing Voice fans can claim AICP CM credits for listening to the podcast. Link below: ⬇️
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November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🚨 Reminder!! 🚨 Housing Voice fans can claim AICP CM credits for listening to the podcast. Link below: ⬇️
bit.ly/39Ctn8Y
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🏘️ Many in CA want more ADU production, but how will this impact markets? Postdoc @jessica-schirmer.bsky.social shares research on ADU production and rents in high-rent cities. Catch Jessica's Saturday talk at @appam.bsky.social #2025APPAM
Info below! ⬇️📄
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Info below! ⬇️📄
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The Policy and Politics of Housing Supply
<p>In the face of rising housing costs, growing homelessness, and deepening inequality in high-demand urban areas, housing supply has emerged as a central public policy issue. As policymakers search f...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🏘️ Many in CA want more ADU production, but how will this impact markets? Postdoc @jessica-schirmer.bsky.social shares research on ADU production and rents in high-rent cities. Catch Jessica's Saturday talk at @appam.bsky.social #2025APPAM
Info below! ⬇️📄
convention2.allacademic.com/one/appam/ap...
Info below! ⬇️📄
convention2.allacademic.com/one/appam/ap...
The L.A. City Council is considering a new cap on rents. Speaking to @latimes.com om, @shanedphillips.bsky.social illips.bsky.social said the rent stabilization ordinance does need reform, but the current proposal "swings the pendulum too far in the other direction."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A. may cap rent increases for rent-stabilized apartments at 3%. Landlords cry foul
The proposed update to the city’s rent stabilization ordinance would be a massive shift in favor of tenants. It comes as many parts of the country are struggling with a housing affordability crisis.
www.latimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The L.A. City Council is considering a new cap on rents. Speaking to @latimes.com om, @shanedphillips.bsky.social illips.bsky.social said the rent stabilization ordinance does need reform, but the current proposal "swings the pendulum too far in the other direction."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
@elpaavo.bsky.social spent the past two years in France — and now that he's back, he's published a report on France's social housing system and its important implications for a burgeoning social housing movement in California.
Read more below! 🔗🏗️
Read more below! 🔗🏗️
Social Housing in France: Lessons for California and Beyond
A detailed description of the French social housing system as a reference point for governments that seek to create their own, with a discussion of financing, landlord–developers, rent setting, residents, and recent reforms.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@elpaavo.bsky.social spent the past two years in France — and now that he's back, he's published a report on France's social housing system and its important implications for a burgeoning social housing movement in California.
Read more below! 🔗🏗️
Read more below! 🔗🏗️
It was a pleasure to begin our 2025-26 Housing Lecture Series with @elpaavo.bsky.social
After two years in Paris, we're thrilled to have Paavo back in LA, and enjoyed his history/analysis on French social housing. 🇫🇷🏗️ His lecture is linked below
youtu.be/t2Yp8oPIAZw
After two years in Paris, we're thrilled to have Paavo back in LA, and enjoyed his history/analysis on French social housing. 🇫🇷🏗️ His lecture is linked below
youtu.be/t2Yp8oPIAZw
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It was a pleasure to begin our 2025-26 Housing Lecture Series with @elpaavo.bsky.social
After two years in Paris, we're thrilled to have Paavo back in LA, and enjoyed his history/analysis on French social housing. 🇫🇷🏗️ His lecture is linked below
youtu.be/t2Yp8oPIAZw
After two years in Paris, we're thrilled to have Paavo back in LA, and enjoyed his history/analysis on French social housing. 🇫🇷🏗️ His lecture is linked below
youtu.be/t2Yp8oPIAZw
Planners and builders don't always see eye-to-eye; not so in Memphis, where the city's development chief has tapped an urbanist/developer to rethink the regulations hindering missing middle production. 🏘️
Listen below! ⬇️ 🎧
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...
Listen below! ⬇️ 🎧
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Planners and builders don't always see eye-to-eye; not so in Memphis, where the city's development chief has tapped an urbanist/developer to rethink the regulations hindering missing middle production. 🏘️
Listen below! ⬇️ 🎧
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...
Listen below! ⬇️ 🎧
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/11/05/1...
Students in @minjeekim.bsky.social Site Planning Studio partnered with Solano Canyon residents to make the neighborhood more fire resilient. This new report on that effort is a model for community engaged planning across LA.
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
Fire Resilient LA: Solano Canyon
The January fires highlight urgent questions: Should we keep building in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) amid worsening climate disasters, and how can we protect the homes already there?
www.lewis.ucla.edu
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Students in @minjeekim.bsky.social Site Planning Studio partnered with Solano Canyon residents to make the neighborhood more fire resilient. This new report on that effort is a model for community engaged planning across LA.
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The Lewis Center Fellows application period closes soon!! 🚨🚨
Luskin grad students: Submit by November 2 to apply for financial support on capstone projects that advance the center's interests. Application details below!
🔗 www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
Luskin grad students: Submit by November 2 to apply for financial support on capstone projects that advance the center's interests. Application details below!
🔗 www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
October 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Lewis Center Fellows application period closes soon!! 🚨🚨
Luskin grad students: Submit by November 2 to apply for financial support on capstone projects that advance the center's interests. Application details below!
🔗 www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
Luskin grad students: Submit by November 2 to apply for financial support on capstone projects that advance the center's interests. Application details below!
🔗 www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
This week on #UCLAHousingVoice, we're celebrating 100 episodes!! The hosts reminiscence on their favorite episodes (like @shanedphillips.bsky.social 1st pick) and answer listener questions. Also, we have updates on our book club!
As always, thanks for listening! 🎧 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/22/1...
As always, thanks for listening! 🎧 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/22/1...
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This week on #UCLAHousingVoice, we're celebrating 100 episodes!! The hosts reminiscence on their favorite episodes (like @shanedphillips.bsky.social 1st pick) and answer listener questions. Also, we have updates on our book club!
As always, thanks for listening! 🎧 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/22/1...
As always, thanks for listening! 🎧 www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/22/1...
A little BTS of the recording of episode 100(!!) of the #UCLAHousingVoice. Tune in tomorrow to hear the co-hosts answer listener questions. www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/hou...
October 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A little BTS of the recording of episode 100(!!) of the #UCLAHousingVoice. Tune in tomorrow to hear the co-hosts answer listener questions. www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/hou...
Icymi, our @uclaits.bsky.social colleagues have an exciting new project, the UCLA Center for Parking Policy! Honoring the late Donald Shoup, this center supports policymakers navigate complex parking reforms.
Learn more here 🔗 ⬇️ 🚘
Learn more here 🔗 ⬇️ 🚘
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Icymi, our @uclaits.bsky.social colleagues have an exciting new project, the UCLA Center for Parking Policy! Honoring the late Donald Shoup, this center supports policymakers navigate complex parking reforms.
Learn more here 🔗 ⬇️ 🚘
Learn more here 🔗 ⬇️ 🚘
Reposted by UCLA Lewis Center
At #ACSP2025? Don’t miss the roundtable “Celebrating the Legacy of Donald Shoup (1938–2025)” — a tribute to the UCLA scholar whose parking research transformed cities.
📅 Fri, Oct 24 | 🕜 1:30–2:45 PM | 📍 Orchestra A, Hilton Minneapolis
📅 Fri, Oct 24 | 🕜 1:30–2:45 PM | 📍 Orchestra A, Hilton Minneapolis
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
At #ACSP2025? Don’t miss the roundtable “Celebrating the Legacy of Donald Shoup (1938–2025)” — a tribute to the UCLA scholar whose parking research transformed cities.
📅 Fri, Oct 24 | 🕜 1:30–2:45 PM | 📍 Orchestra A, Hilton Minneapolis
📅 Fri, Oct 24 | 🕜 1:30–2:45 PM | 📍 Orchestra A, Hilton Minneapolis
Is LA the land of NIMBYism? This years Quality of Life Index says no, according to @zacharyst.bsky.social
In @latimes.com , he writes how the QLI shows broad support for building more apartments across in the city, even in people's own backyards.
Read more here! 🔗 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
In @latimes.com , he writes how the QLI shows broad support for building more apartments across in the city, even in people's own backyards.
Read more here! 🔗 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Not so NIMBY, Angelenos want more housing in their neighborhoods
The mayor said she was pulling back on development to respect constituents' wishes. But survey data say residents want more homes everywhere.
www.latimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Is LA the land of NIMBYism? This years Quality of Life Index says no, according to @zacharyst.bsky.social
In @latimes.com , he writes how the QLI shows broad support for building more apartments across in the city, even in people's own backyards.
Read more here! 🔗 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
In @latimes.com , he writes how the QLI shows broad support for building more apartments across in the city, even in people's own backyards.
Read more here! 🔗 www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Auto debt is second largest source of consumer debt – and research from Evelyn Blumenberg shows that it disproportionately impacts women and communities of color, exacerbating existing inequities.
Learn more here:
Learn more here:
An unequal burden: Lewis Center researchers document the disproportionate impact of auto debt - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Auto debt is the second largest source of consumer debt in the country. Since 2020, a growing body of UCLA research has revealed how this debt falls unevenly across communities.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Auto debt is second largest source of consumer debt – and research from Evelyn Blumenberg shows that it disproportionately impacts women and communities of color, exacerbating existing inequities.
Learn more here:
Learn more here:
Happy Sustainable Transportation Month! 🚆🚲🚌
UCLA offers resources for eco-friendly commuting, and Lewis Center research has driven the conversation around transit equity.
Check our website for latest publications.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
UCLA offers resources for eco-friendly commuting, and Lewis Center research has driven the conversation around transit equity.
Check our website for latest publications.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
October 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Happy Sustainable Transportation Month! 🚆🚲🚌
UCLA offers resources for eco-friendly commuting, and Lewis Center research has driven the conversation around transit equity.
Check our website for latest publications.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
UCLA offers resources for eco-friendly commuting, and Lewis Center research has driven the conversation around transit equity.
Check our website for latest publications.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
The org that sets U.S. building codes requires safety measures that make multifamily housing expensive. With #UCLAHousingVoice, Jesse Zwick discusses his research on the subject and effort to reform building codes in @santamonicacity.bsky.social
Listen here!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/08/9...
Listen here!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/08/9...
October 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The org that sets U.S. building codes requires safety measures that make multifamily housing expensive. With #UCLAHousingVoice, Jesse Zwick discusses his research on the subject and effort to reform building codes in @santamonicacity.bsky.social
Listen here!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/08/9...
Listen here!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/10/08/9...
ICYMI … 🚨🚨applications for Lewis Center fellowships are open!!
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
ICYMI … 🚨🚨applications for Lewis Center fellowships are open!!
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
www.lewis.ucla.edu/p...
ICYMI … 🚨🚨applications for Lewis Center fellowships are open!!
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
Apply below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
Apply below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
October 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
ICYMI … 🚨🚨applications for Lewis Center fellowships are open!!
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
Apply below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
Our fellowships provide financial support to Luskin grad students pursuing capstones on housing affordability, public space, regional economy & transportation equity.
Apply below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/programs/stu...
🚨🚨Attn #HousingVoice listeners … we want to hear from you!
To celebrate our 100th episode (!!), we’re answering your questions on air.
📧 Send us a message here or at lewiscenter@luskin.u...
www.its.ucla.edu/pub...
To celebrate our 100th episode (!!), we’re answering your questions on air.
📧 Send us a message here or at lewiscenter@luskin.u...
www.its.ucla.edu/pub...
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🚨🚨Attn #HousingVoice listeners … we want to hear from you!
To celebrate our 100th episode (!!), we’re answering your questions on air.
📧 Send us a message here or at lewiscenter@luskin.u...
www.its.ucla.edu/pub...
To celebrate our 100th episode (!!), we’re answering your questions on air.
📧 Send us a message here or at lewiscenter@luskin.u...
www.its.ucla.edu/pub...
New @mbrozen.bsky.social .bsky.social research offers insight into how public transit users evacuated during the January wildfires. Most got rides with other people, but some demographics relied more heavily on public transit — raising equity concerns.
www.its.ucla.edu/publication/...
www.its.ucla.edu/publication/...
Evacuation Patterns, Health Risks, and Mobility Strategies Among Transit Riders in the 2025 L.A. Fires - UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
www.its.ucla.edu
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
New @mbrozen.bsky.social .bsky.social research offers insight into how public transit users evacuated during the January wildfires. Most got rides with other people, but some demographics relied more heavily on public transit — raising equity concerns.
www.its.ucla.edu/publication/...
www.its.ucla.edu/publication/...
U.S. regulators worried about safety require larger elevator cars than in Europe. But these rules reduce the number of elevators, exacerbating sprawl and the accompanying dangers.
Learn more in ep. 2 of our Incentives Series with @stephenjacobsmith.com!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...
Learn more in ep. 2 of our Incentives Series with @stephenjacobsmith.com!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...
September 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
U.S. regulators worried about safety require larger elevator cars than in Europe. But these rules reduce the number of elevators, exacerbating sprawl and the accompanying dangers.
Learn more in ep. 2 of our Incentives Series with @stephenjacobsmith.com!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...
Learn more in ep. 2 of our Incentives Series with @stephenjacobsmith.com!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...